Japanese Blockade German Liner Stopped British Steamer Is Detained For Five Hours LONDON
The Sun · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 1
A Japanese warship stopped the German steamer, Sauerland (7080 tons), which was on her way to Shanghai, on May 24, and examined her papers, says a…
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The Sun · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 1
A mystery of the sea seems to have been provided by the report of a wrecked steamer on an uncharted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ordeal of Castaways Lost Ashore After Storms And Food Shortage At Sea BROOME
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 May 1939 · page 2
In Broome Government Hospital Mr. A. N. Johnson was able today to tell a graphic story of the ordeal of himself and wife. They were rescued on Friday in wild country after they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Disabled. Five of Crew Overboard. Three Ships to Rescue. London, May 30. (A.A.P.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 May 1939 · page 15
The liner Orford and the steamers Clan Farquhar and Mahanada have answered an S.O.S. from the disabled Belgian steamer Perun, 24 miles south…
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Daily News · Wednesday 31 May 1939 · page 2
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--An amazing story of the discovery by Japanese beche-de-mer fishermen of a wrecked steamer high and dry on a hitherto…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 May 1939 · page 1
North Sydney children are being taught how to play by a special supervisor selected by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ketch Is Back Struck Gale In Tasman
The Sun · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 3
With a broken chronometer, the main water tank leaking and supplies short, and slight deck…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Zealand Eucharistic Congress. Steamer Concessions From Australia
Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 35
The secretary of the National Eucharistic Congress to be held in New Zealand in February next, during the Centennial Exhibition, has been advised by…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Children Hurt in School Wreck New York
The Sun · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 5
A gas explosion at a school in Barberton (Ohio), injured at least 49 children, six critically. The injured were trapped when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kui Kong Young In World Class K.O.'d Hall in 3rd Body Punching Wrecked Local's Hopes
Daily News · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 10
WRITE down Kui Kong Young as the hardest-punching bantam to fight in Australia in the last 30 years. The Oriental knocked out Joe Hall in three rounds…
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Daily News · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 5
After a second unsuccessful attempt to sail to Lord Howe Island, the auxiliary ketch Hispaniola returned to Palm Beach yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Submarine Sinks with 79 ABOARD Buoys Found After Dive Down in Zone of Wrecks 25 Warships Rush To Give Aid LONDON
The Sun · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 1
One of Britain's newest submarines, H.M.S. Thetis, is lying on the bottom of the Irish Sea with 79 men aboard, including 20 of her builders…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Judicial Separation After 19 YEARS. "Marriage a Wreck."
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 12
After a married life of nineteen years, a couple were judicially separated in the Divorce Court yesterday, on their wedding anniversary…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wide Sea Search Wind Drives Ketch 25 Miles Out Sails to Safety
Daily News · Monday 5 June 1939 · page 1
WHILE the pilot ship, Captain Cook, and three launches searched for a missing ketch off Cronulla yesterday the vessel was sailing safely to Wollongong…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 June 1939 · page 2
THIS WRECKED MILL was in the 200-yard wide track of a cyclone which swept through Cudal, near Orange, last Thursday night. Many houses were unroofed, trees were blown down, and sheets of iron were carried hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempt to Wreck Brick Works. Boys With Gelignite. Candle Had Been Blown Out. Auckland (N.z.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 June 1939 · page 11
An attempt by boys to explode 100 sticks of gelignite, at the works of the Amalgamated Brick and Pipe Company at New Lynn, an outer suburb of Auckland, was revealed to-day…
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Daily News · Wednesday 7 June 1939 · page 6
Within five minutes a mystery fire destroyed this truck in a garage at Kensington last night. In the picture, the owner, Alan Robinsan, 24 (left), and his brother, Charles, 17, are viewing the damage. (Story page 1.)…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 June 1939 · page 9
The steamer Fotinl Carras (446 tons) bound from New Caledonia to Bowen, struck the South Bellona Reef, 250 miles from New Caledonia to-night. A distress signal sent…
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Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 9 June 1939 · page 5
Radio messages received at Brisbane yesterday stated that the Greek steamer Fotini Carras (4466 tons gross) was stranded on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Uncharted Island Caused Wreck. Loss of Greek Steamer. Report From Rescue Ship. Brisbane
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 June 1939 · page 9
An uncharted island 500 feet long and 15 feet above high-tide level caused the wreck of the Greek steamer Fotini Carras near South Bellina reef,…
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